title: Temporal and spatial heterogeneity of blood supply to the heart: visualization and interpretation.
abstract: Blood flow of the heart muscle (the coronary circulation) exhibits both temporal and spatial heterogeneity. In this paper, the unique blood velocity waveform during a cardiac cycle, the flow fluctuation of a longer period and the within-layer spatial flow heterogeneity of the coronary circulation are described with a reference to the pathogenesis of angina pectoris and myocardial infarction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Engineering and Systems Cardiology, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan. kajiya@me.kawasaki-m.ac.jp
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kajiya
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D003326:Coronary Circulation; D008833:Microcirculation / Q000502:physiology; D008955:Models, Cardiovascular; D009200:Myocardial Contraction; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted